Additional Suez Mail News.

Thames Star, Volume IX, Issue 3016, 15 October 1878, Page 2

Additional Suez Mail News.

The paper mills of Messrs Bagshaw, of Norwich,-have been destrpyed by, fire, and also a portion of the Great Eastern Company's railway works at Ipswich. In a fire at Birmingham four persons perished, and at Plimlico there has been a great timber fire. ' Obituaby.—The Prince Imperial of Japan, Madame Van de Wezer, widow of the late Belgian Minister; Senor Don Pedro Galvez, Peruvian Minister in London; S. S. Dickensbn, ex-M.P. for Stroud.

The want of cordiality in the relations between Marshal MacMahon and the Ministers has given rise to rumours that the President will resign in autumn. The Marshal refused to attend the service at Notre Dame on the anniversary of M. Thiers. M. MacMahon has signed 80 pardons and commutations of sentence for persons compromised during the commune at Berne. v .

An international conference is debating measures for the destruction of phylloxera vastarix. The pest is committing great ravages among vines in the north of Portugal. .

Violent shocks of earthquake were felt last Monday morning at several towns in the Rhine valley, and in Belgium. At Korman a house had the roof displaced, and furniture was shaken and shop goods overthrown. '

The late >Queen Christina, will be buried in the Escurial with royal honors. VilliermjD, leader of a late rising in Extramindura, has been tried by. court martial, and sentenced to life imprisonment. The other insurgents have been condemned to various periods of imprisonment, from eight to 17 years.

The silver wedding of the King and Queen of Belgium has been celebrated with great festivity. All European Governments were represented. Lord Torrington delivered to the Queen an autograph letter from Queen Victoria, with the Ladies' Order of the Star of

India. The fete extended over several days. ;

During the past three months 563 persons have been prosecuted for insulting the German 'Emperor, of whom 521 have been, sentenced to various terms of im- , prisonment. Cardinal Franchi is believed to have been poisoned in drinking a glass of sherbet.' His • successor has had several suspicious'attacks of illness. In the Austrian occupation of, Bosnia, after a preliminary victory over the' insurgents, the Austriaas entered Sera-1 jero, where a desperate street conflict took place, in which men, women, and even hospital patients joined. Houses were burned, and the assailants suffocated. The insurgents lost 3000 in killed and 700 wounded. The disarmament of the inhabitants was ordered under penalty of' death. A large amount of booty was seized including 27 guns and abundance of military stores. Numerous Turkish I officers and soldiers were taken prisoners. v

On August 21 General Jouvsnivick's division, after severe fighting, 'relieved the garrison shut up in Stolac.

On the 23rd the insurgents attacked General Septery's division in its position on the Bosnia river, but after nine hours' fighting they were driven off. Afterwards they attacked the Austrian centre, but were effectually repulsed. They incessantly assailed and harassed the Austrians. The losses incurred by the Austrian army have excited great exasperation in Hungary, and the Press indulges in loud upbraiding of the Government. ,